Substantial Acquisitions of Shares Disclosure

Govett Emerging Markets Inv Tst PLC 21 June 2000 LETTER TO: COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENTS OFFICE Please consider this letter as notification that the Fund Manager Regent Europe Limited (formerly known as Regent Fund Management (Cayman) Limited) yesterday purchased a further 300,000 shares of Govett Emerging Markets Investment Trust (GEM.L), 221,700 shares on behalf of Undervalued Assets Fund Series 1 and 78,300 shares on behalf of Regent Undervalued Opportunities Company Limited. As a result of this and the restructuring of the Regent Pacific Group Limited which took place 16 May 2000, the share ownership is reflected as follows: Undervalued Assets Fund-Asia - 1,691,530 (controlling company being iRegent.com Limited) Undervalued Assets Fund - Series 1 - 3,856,387 (controlling company being Regent Europe Limited) Regent Undervalued Opportunities Company Limited - 1,426,083 (controlling company being Regent Europe Limited) Regent Fund Management (IOM) Limited acts on behalf of Regent Europe Limited for Undervalued Assets Fund - Series I and Regent Undervalued Opportunities Company Limited. Regent Financial Services Limited for whom iRegent.com is the controlling company, acts on behalf of Regent Fund Management Limited for Undervalued Assets Fund-Asia. As a result of the above, i.Regent.com Limited now has control of 4.73% and Regent Europe Limited has control of 14.77% of the total shares in issue. Please note I have attached a copy of the Form SAR3 to clarify the status of ownership with regard to the restructuring of the Regent Pacific Group and any further notices regarding Undervalued Assets Fund- Asia will be submitted by Regent Financial Services, Hong Kong (contact: Stella Fund 00852 2514 6111). LETTER FROM: REGENT FUND MANAGEMENT (IOM) LTD FORM SAR 3 Date of disclosure.....21/06/00......... DISCLOSURE UNDER RULE 3 OF THE RULES GOVERNING SUBSTANTIAL ACQUISITIONS OF SHARES ('SARs') ....................20 JUNE 2000 - NO ACQUISITION ACTUALLY MADE, THIS IS TO CLARIFY THE POSITION WITH REGARD TO RESTRUCTURE............ Acquisition in......GOVETT EMERGING MARKETS INVESTMENT TRUST.(name of company). (1) Class of voting shares Number of shares/rights If rights over shares (eg ordinary shares) over shares acquired acquired, as opposed to the shares themselves, specify nature of rights .....ORDINARY........ ................shares ..................... ................rights (2) Resultant total holding Resultant total holding Total percentage of voting shares (and % of rights over shares of total voting shares (and % of total voting in issue) shares in issue) .......1,691,530....... ...............( %) ......4.73%......... (3) Party making disclosure.....iREGENT.COM LIMITED............................ (4) (a) Name of person acquiring shares or rights over shares ............ and, if different, beneficial owner............................... (b) Names of any other persons acting by agreement or understanding (see SAR 5)....REGENT FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED.................... Signed, for and on behalf of the party named in (3) above...................... (Also print name of signatory).......JOHN W HEMMANT............................ Telephone and extension number.......01624 640218.............................. Note. Under SAR 5, the holdings of and acquisitions by persons acting by agreement or understanding must be aggregated and treated as a holding of or acquisition by one person. Note 3 on SAR 5 requires persons who must aggregate holdings to disclose certain disposals. For full details of the SARs disclosure requirements, see Rules 3 and 5 of the SARs. If in doubt, contact the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, Tel. No: 020 7382 9026.
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